Dying at Grace

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An extraordinary, transformative experience, Allan King’s Dying at Grace is quite simply unprecedented: five terminally ill cancer patients allowed the director access to their final months and days inside the Toronto Grace Health Centre. The result is an unflinching, enormously empathetic contemplation of death, featuring some of the most memorable people ever captured on film.

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These tributes first appeared in the winter 2010 issue of Brick,a literary journal based in Toronto. They are posted here by permission of the authors. The photographs appear courtesy of . . .
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This essay first appeared in the winter 2010 issue of Brick,a literary journal based in Toronto. It is posted here by permission of the author. Michelangelo said he could sense the figure in . . .
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This interview was published in the winter 2010 issue of Brick,a literary journal based in Toronto. It is posted here by permission of the Toronto International Film Festival. The photograph . . .
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WARRENDALE: MAN OF ACTION Allan King was one of cinema’s most acute chroniclers of unadorned reality, but the term documentary seems too puny to describe the intense, passionate stories he . . .
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Film Essays

WARRENDALE: MAN OF ACTION Allan King was one of cinema’s most acute chroniclers of unadorned reality, but the term documentary seems too puny to describe the intense, passionate stories he . . .
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Features

These tributes first appeared in the winter 2010 issue of Brick,a literary journal based in Toronto. They are posted here by permission of the authors. The photographs appear courtesy of . . .
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This essay first appeared in the winter 2010 issue of Brick,a literary journal based in Toronto. It is posted here by permission of the author. Michelangelo said he could sense the figure in . . .
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Features

This interview was published in the winter 2010 issue of Brick,a literary journal based in Toronto. It is posted here by permission of the Toronto International Film Festival. The photograph . . .
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Press Notes

Before we put 2010 to bed, we thought we’d catch up with all the year-end lists that have sprung up over the past week or so. A good place to start is DVD Beaver’s annual poll, which ranks the . . .
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Press Notes

In his Los Angeles Times review of Eclipse Series 24, critic Dennis Lim lays out why readers may not know the filmmaker honored by the set, and why they should: “The subject of The Actuality . . .
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Film Essays

WARRENDALE: MAN OF ACTION Allan King was one of cinema’s most acute chroniclers of unadorned reality, but the term documentary seems too puny to describe the intense, passionate stories he . . .
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I didn’t know quite what to say to Allan King when I met him for the first time in the fall of 2003 at his home offices in downtown Toronto. This was partly out of deference to his reputation as . . .
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Dispatches

Seven years ago, I was a bright-eyed recent university grad who had just moved to the big city—Toronto—for the first time. I was struggling to find my path as a filmmaker, and at the Toronto . . .
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